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August 8, 2012 4:28 pm

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Nadine Dorries tells the Spectator that recent events can be explained thus:

“It’s about Cameron and Clegg keeping their bums on their seats as Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister for as long as possible. I would put money on the fact that David Cameron will not lead us into the next election.“

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  • Owen

    Waste of money…

  • http://www.robbiescott.com/ Robbie Scott

    a bit of an idle comment i think. 

    • John Dore

      I don’t think so, Cameron should have walked into Downing Street with a 100 seat majority. With the shambles that was Brown. He failed and quite spectacularly. 

      The back benchers hate the coalition, hate the policies and they want blood. The Tory house of cards is collapsing.

      • aracataca

        Interesting Mr Dore but pure speculation presumably?

        • JoeDM

          Just go and read the comments on ConservativeHome.com and you’ll find out what the real Tory grassroots think.

          Many are seriously considering the UKIP alternative.

          • Brumanuensis

            All talk. They’ll vote Tory in a general election, just like half the people who said they were voting Lib Dem in 2010 ended up voting Labour.

          • ThePurpleBooker

            They won’t. They will vote UKIP. They think Cameron is too liberal, mate.

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Homfray/510980099 Mike Homfray

            It may well depend on whether they think the Tories haven’t a chance of winning , in which case they may well switch. If its looking close fear of Labour may draw them back

          • Casio

            So says the closeted Tory.

          • treborc

             Liberal he’s a  closeted Liberal.

          • Alan Giles

             Actually, I think Labour should be as worried about the break-up of the coalition as the Lib-Dems.

            I always remember being told 1996-97 by friends, when I complained about Blair’s worryingly (C)conserative views, “Don’t worry he is only saying things like that to win over the newspapers. He will be a real Labour leader when he is P.M”. Well, who was right and who was wrong?.

            But leaving that aside, a break up of the coalition might be a fillip for Cameron. If Clegg walks away (and I don’t think he is that suicidal), Cameron could say, “We have had to be tame because of the LibDems, now  we can be real Conservatives”. Cameron is so shameless that he would then have no hesitation in becoming even more right-wing to please his slavering backbenchers, and would be panicked into being more Thatcherite than Mrs Thatcher – a drowning man will clasp at any straw (remember Brown being so desperate he bought Mandy back, a man he detested “Peter asked to borrow 10p to phone a friend, so I gave him 20p and said phone all of them”). If he led a minority government and got defeated over a real “Conservative” issue, then all his rebels (probably even including the attention seeking Dorries) would rally round and support him.

            Let’s not forget just a matter of eight months ago, we had “Labour” supporters, even on LL, demeaning Ed Miliband – simply because on a Twitter message he got one vowel wrong in the title of a long defunct TV series – a typing error anyone might have made. But nobody would do that today, would they?

            Harold was right – a week is a long time in politics, but if the coalition ended tomorrow and there was a snap election in September, I don’t think it is certain Labour would win: as a matter of fact I don’t think anybody would win. It would be a hung parliament, which is what I expect in 2015 BTW

          • aracataca

            Had a look – some of ConHome is unintentionally hilarious. A leading article (link below) starts off by comparing Clegg’s behaviour to denying Cameron sex, ie his conjugal rights – yes, it actually says that. As if grassroots Tories weren’t outraged enough the Coalition already, an image like that has completely pushed them over the edge. For example:

            Shut up you stupid, idiotic, dimpot Liberal. It’s because of lefties like you who have infiltrated our party and the fact you have colluded with a party which co-operates with the likes of Tony Benn, that we will lose the next general election. We are finsihed. There will be a LABOUR MAJORITY GOVERNMENT and it’s all you and the modernisers fault. Thanks very much! Might as well join UKIP.

            Amen to that! http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2012/08/imagine-a-civil-partnership-of-which-one-partner-suddenly-announced-to-the-world-my-partner-has-refused-to-cook-me-any-food.html

          • Brumanuensis

            I may start using ‘dimpot’ in regular conversation. It’s an excellent insult.

          • Casio

            “‘Shut up you stupid, idiotic, dimpot Liberal. It’s because of lefties like you who have infiltrated our party and the fact you have colluded with a party which co-operates with the likes of Tony Benn, that we will lose the next general election.”

            Sounds like ThePurpleBooker talking about people on the centre-left of the Labour Party! Every political party has its nutcases and as you can see from the comments on this site the Labour Party has plenty enough of its own to go round – with legions to spare. 

  • Simon

    Nadine Dorries is a nutbag. 

    This is the woman who said that unemployed people found using Twitter during the week should have their Jobseeker’s Allowance stopped because they were wasting time that should be utilised for “actively seeking work” and that the Speaker of the House, John Bercow, had damaged Britain’s tourism industry by insisting on wearing trousers rather than gaiters and in doing so had discouraged foreign visitors from holidaying in the country.

    Nadine is out of her gourd.

    I wouldn’t pay any attention to anything this extremely eccentric Tory says. 

    • Mike Murray

      If the boundary changes don’t go through then I think that Dorries will be seen to be prescient. The only reason Cameron got into bed with the Lib Dem stooges was to make sure that the Tories got enough seats for a majority next time. He’s failed.  The end of boundary changes would deny the Tories a majority and  benefit Labour. 

  • John Ruddy

    If Dorries says enough stupid things, the law of averages says she must be right once at least…

  • Brumanuensis

    It’s Dorries. No-one cares.
    Also, what the hell happened to the comments section? Mark, could you let us know beforehand when something of this kind is done?

    • PeterBarnard

      I think I have the same problem, Brumanuensis, on the comments section. A “pick a name box” appears and, when I do that, another box appears into which I typed my email address (pure guess that was what was wanted).
      Sorry, Mark : 0/10

      • Brumanuensis

        In fairness to Mark, this may be Disqus ‘upgrading’ their system.

        I think we now have to fully register with Disqus and give more details. Which irks me, because I left Facebook for similar reasons. On the other hand, I now have a lovely self-portrait as my avatar.

    • ThePurpleBooker

      We should care because she is the spokeswoman for many in the Tory Party. But one backbencher told me that she is ‘just a bitch and chatterbox’. This is somebody who hates David Cameron and is convinced that Ed Miliband is the next Prime Minister with a majority.

      • Alan Giles

         Theresa Gorman was once a spokeswoman for many in the party, but who remembers her now?. The former member for Billericay briefly flouted with a media career but it came to nought, and the same will be true of Ms Dorries. Gorman cordially disliked John Major, in the same way Dorries does Cameron (“Dorries Does Cameron” sounds like the sort of DVD Mr Smith might watch!)  but you still hear from time to time from Major. When did you last hear Gorman?

      • Casio

        What? Just like we should care about your rants as a self-appointed “spokesman” for many in the Labour Party?  Oh, brother.

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